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title: An international ferry liner, the Scotia Prince, is conducting a fer… — Colombo · tree and pragmatics
description: An international ferry liner, the Scotia Prince, is conducting a ferry service to Tuticorin, India. Who acts: international ferry liner. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Colombo» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Colombo, sentence 156

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From Wikipedia, [«Colombo»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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An international ferry liner, the Scotia Prince, is conducting a ferry service to Tuticorin, India.

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**Who acts:** international ferry liner · **What happens:** conduct · **To what, where:** ferry service, Tuticorin

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (international ferry liner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Colombo:156
# text = An international ferry liner, the Scotia Prince, is conducting a ferry service to Tuticorin, India.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	liner	liner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Scotia	Scotia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	conducting	conduct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ferry	ferry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tuticorin	Tuticorin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | present · progressive | a international ferry liner | a ferry service | Tuticorin |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent service=Theme to tuticorin=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Colombo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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